To think you should be able to sue your mum if you weren't breastfed

[Richocet]

and have suffered health consequences that could have been prevented by breastfeeding?

Honestly OP do you really think that adults care about how they were fed as babies? I was BF by a teenage mum in a time when ff was more popular, I never cared one little bit about this fact until I had my own dc and only then only really mused over it in a 'didn't she do well' sort of a way. What happens to us as adults, health etc is about a whole journey not a couple of months of infant feeding.

A person I know who is a breastfeeding councillor and has very strong views on breastfeeding and is not afraid to spout them weaned her babies onto jars, has never given them anything raw or home cooked and they now eat waffles and shite like that every day. I wouldn't usually care about this except that she constantly going on about how people can feed babies crap as in formula.

op Why would i want to talk to the ff comanys,it is you i was addressing as it was your post/thread.
Anyway the presence of formula doesnt affect womens choices not to feed,ask anyone who has tried and not suceeded and they will give you a plethera of reasons one of which will not be "Cos i wanted to spend 8 pounds on it and spend my life making up bottles and sterilising.
What do you suggest the 2 percent who have medical reasons for not feeding do to nourish their children.
Its just bf not life or death there are far more significant things we can do to enhance our childrens lives.

Sooooooooo - with all these claims going on, I am going to offset failing to breastfeed my first child with recommending he become a lawyer. His future looks rosy.

Still suing my daughter for mental anguish and sleep deprivation torture for four years.

obviously op should sue her mother for providing her with substandard breastmilk as she clearly lacks any intelligence, that bm is supposed to give.

Cherry enjoy your beautiful, clever, almost certain to grow up just perfect in your eyes baby. She doesn't give a damn how you feed her. Just that you love her.

Nerves hit here too. But happier now because I've managed two more undeleted posts

button that is what a lovely paed nurse said to me when my now 7 week ds was being treated for jaundice with light therapy. I was beside myself when I was told that I would have to give top ups as ds was dehydrated, that put paid to bf as ds no longer wanted my boob. I now express most of ds feeds and top up with formula. I had bf issues with dd now 5 and had to have formula. These threads really rile me as the poster obviously is very ignorant, unintelligent and lacks any compassion or understanding.

I really can't be arsed reading all of such a stupid thread but how exactly would I go about proving that my DM didn't breast feed me in 1967, despite her claiming that she did, to be able to sue?

I know that I breastfed DS. Can't prove it though. How on earth could I? Maybe he should sue me though cos he developed a brain tumour that is only caused by foetal brain cells malfunctioning. Must be my fault though eh? After all, I grew him. His brain was down to me. Thanks for that OP!

Haven't you got anything more productive to do with your time?

Haha she is the pfb :D

Its daft that this post will probably annoy me for a few hours. It makes me sad that there is people like op out that clearly get off on starting arguments and making people feel like shit/failures.

Ah, but that's only because we are silly enough to feel what they want us to feel. I can tell you til I'm blue in the face what I've already said, but deep down, do I believe it for my 4 dcs? Do I heck. I am a failure, a total failure and although dd1 is 14 and ds2 is 8m, I feel as much of a failure for not being able to nourish her as I do him.

That was staggeringly depressing, no? Hopefully you'll get over it a little quicker than me

Or perhaps they could thank me for sticking by my decision for doing what I felt was right for my family. After all we are seeing no "side effects" of me poisoning their little bodies as of yet. My 5 year old has not had anything more than a runny nose in years and my 2 year old who has been in nursery since he was 6 months (I know how could I abandon him with strangers!) has never had a day off poorly. They are both developing into fantastic, healthy, happy, well adjusted children, if they want to sue me for that then they can go ahead!

Anecdote is not data

No one should feel they have to justify their feeding choices - or lack of them - to randoms on the interweb.

The OP is silly.

Or a lawyer

I don't need to direct my anger at the lack of support- for me it was a CHOICE and I didn't want to. I assume this is a wind up so trying not to get too angry and waste my energy.

Oh, this thread is still here.

"I don't know... I hadn't thought of the details, just thought it was an interesting, if controversial, thing to discuss...

(and with over 200 posts it's seems I wasn't the only one to think so)"

You did notice that approximately 99% of those posts are telling you you are being offensive/idiotic/deliberately inflammatory didn't you?

I know. It's odd. MNHQ went on a deletion spree yesterday but that's seemingly over and so now anything goes

TSC

Maybe being FF causes inflammatory bollocks?

Soup, plus a whole tin full of biscuits!

button I really thought it may disappear.

So after 18 years of being financially dependent on me my DS should be able to sue me for stopping BF at 6 weeks (milk stopped) because I had a severe illness, and probably then blame me for his allergies.

A mothers place is in the wrong afterall

Maybe being FF causes inflammatory bollocks?

Ah! So that's why I can never keep my mouth shut! Perhaps that's what I should sue my mum for. Not health problems but the fact that my gob gets me into trouble!

All Richocet's mother needs to say is 'just winding you up-I did breastfeed'-she can't sue because she can't prove it. She only knows what her mother cares to tell her.